Suitable for vegans

Natural beauty product making

Looking to make home-made gifts, a little self-pampering, or to learn skills that could lead to a small business? This introductory course provides insight to home DIY natural beauty products and gently introduces insight and knowledge into skin care formulation whilst making 5 products that you can take home.

Make and take home 5 products:

• Face masks
• Face scrub
• Moisturiser
• Facial serum
• Foot lotion
• Salve

You’ll not only walk away with a selection of lotions and potions to sample at home but also comprehensive notes and an understanding of what it takes to become a skincare formulator.

This course will cover:

• Good working practices
• Ingredient types and properties
• Creating a basic store
• Create your own lab – equipment and cleaning
• Understanding preservatives
• How to create a mask, scrub, moisturiser, body or foot lotion and salve for safe use
• Understanding
• How to vary recipes to suit your preferences
• An overview of the difference between DIY products for home use and formulation for business
• The steps needed to certificate products for sale
• Packaging and gift ideas

This is a great starter course for those wishing to launch into making their own skin care products.  It really is possible to start a business venture from the kitchen table. This course starts you with the basics and then overviews the steps needed to translate a simple pastime into a new business venture.

Please note group sizes are kept small so you get the most out of each session.